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Historia animalium ("History of the Animals"), published in Zurich in 1551–1558 and 1587, is an encyclopedic "inventory of renaissance zoology" by Conrad Gessner (1516–1565). Gessner was a medical doctor and professor at the Carolinum in Zürich, the precursor of the University of Zurich.
Conrad Gesner, Historiae Animalium, 1551-1558. Historiae Animalium is considered the first book in its field of its time.
Nov 22, 2022 · Historia animalium ("History of the Animals"), published at Zurich in 1551–58 and 1587, is an encyclopedic "inventory of renaissance zoology" by Conrad Gessner (1516–1565). Gessner was a medical doctor and professor at the Carolinum in Zürich, the precursor of the University of Zurich.
Sep 18, 2017 · The Icones was itself an abridgement of Gessner’s pioneering work Historia animalium, which applied the latest scholarly techniques to describe a variety of animals—including the unicorn, which Gessner called by the Greek equivalent monoceros.
- Erin Rushing
Gessner's great zoological work, Historia animalium, is a 4,500-page encyclopedia of animals that appeared in Zürich in 4 volumes between 1551 and 1558: quadrupeds, amphibians, birds, and fishes. A fifth folio on snakes was issued in 1587.
Conrad Gessner's Historia Animalium was the most widely read work of Renaissance zoology. For the first time the five volumes attempted to cover all known animals, and the work was popular for its frequent illustrations, including the famous rhinoceros by Dürer.
Nov 13, 2017 · Between 1551 and 1558 he worked on the publication of his Historia animalium (Gessner 1551, 1554, 1555a, 1587), the work for which he was best known by his contemporaries (Friedrich 1995; Leu 2016). The project aimed to provide detailed information on all known animals, including woodcut images of each species.
